James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973), Sedat Pakay
You do what you have to do the way you have to do it… American power follows one everywhere. But I’m not any longer worried much about that, I’m worried about getting my work done, and getting on paper, a certain record – which hopefully will be of some value to somebody someday. And in a way, being out, even temporarily, and with the perfect awareness that one is not really very far out of the United States, one sees it better, from a distance.
And you can make comparisons from another place, from another country. Which you aren’t able to make in America because there is nothing to compare America to when you’re there.